2025 CBCA Notables - Complete List

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn't)

Laughter is the Best Ending

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Younger Readers

My Family and Other Suspects

2025 ABIA The John Marsden Book of the Year for Older Children (ages 13+)

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Extinct Animals

Shower Land 1

Break the Curse

The Garden of Broken Things

A new picture book from Australia's award-winning children's author and illustrator, full of kindness and compassion

The Truck Cat

2025 CBCA Picture Book of the Year & 2025 ABIA Children's Picture Book of the year (ages 0-6) & National Simultaneous Storytime 2025

Worms Are Our Friends

Our Friends in the Garden

Always Was, Always Will Be

2025 CBCA Eve Pownall Award Winner

South With the Seabirds

Happy All Over

CBCA Notable Book 2025

Over or Under?

I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Eleanor Jones Can't Keep a Secret

The Kindness Project

Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger

A new thrilling historical adventure book from Jackie French! A CBCA Shortlist Book and winner of the ACT Literary Awards 2025

Come Together Again

A Celebration of First Nations Music, Song and Dance

Flora

Australia's Most Curious Plants

Sky Country

How to Move a Zoo

The incredible true story

Landovel

Presented in a stunning embellished giftbox containing all three books with colourful sprayed edges

Afloat

Unreal

Can you tell fact from fake?

Real Pigeons Power Up (Real Pigeons #12)

Real Pigeons #12

The Wobbly Bike

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Early Childhood

One Little Dung Beetle

Thunderhead

Ming and Ada Spark the Digital Age

The Girls Who Changed the World

The Skin I'm In

The Midwatch

Kate Forsyth's Long-Lost Fairy Tales

The Anti-Racism Kit

A Guide for High School Students

Birdy

A CBCA Honour Book for Older Readers

Worst Week Ever! Saturday

Spiro

When the World Was Soft

Yindjibarndi Creation Stories

Amid the Sand Dunes

Little Worlds #2

Follow Your Gut

a story from the microbes that make you

Walking Together

Three Dresses

Meerkat Mayhem

Into the Ice

Reflections on Antarctica

Bernie Thinks in Boxes

Words That Taste Like Home

We Live in a Bus

Extreme Animal Facts

The Space Between

Comes the Night

We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord

The Sweetness Between Us

House

Kittens Do Not Care for Baths

Preschool Problems

Walking the Rock Country in Kakadu

Karrire kundenge karribolknan kunwarddehwardde

I Am Tree Rex!

Deep Is the Fen

For 60,000 Years

Wedge-tailed Eagle

CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, Notable Book

I'm Not Really Here

2025 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: Older Readers

these long-loved things

How to Break a World Record and Survive Grade Five

Six Summers of Tash and Leopold

Liar's Test

The Silverleaf Chronicles

My Brother, Finch

Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This)

Winner of the Ampersand Prize

All About the Brain 

Just Like You

CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Early Childhood, Notable Book

Countdown to Yesterday

BFFs (NOT) (Twinning #1)

The Most Amazing Thing

Wrong Answers Only

Saskia Spark-Lee: Fundraiser Fail

Shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Younger Readers

Design & Building on Country

First Knowledges for younger readers

The Invocations

Good Hair

A positive book of hair-confidence for 3-7-year-olds

White Noise

Dragon Folding

Two Turtles

Wedge-tailed Eagle

CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, Notable Book

Grow Big, Little Seed

2025 CBCA Award for New Illustrator Winner

Footprint

Stickboy

Listen, Hippo!

Australia's Baby Animals

General Waste

A Way Home

Into the Mouth of the Wolf

Hello Twigs, Look Who's Grumpy

Volume 6

How to Make a Bedtime

CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Early Childhood, Notable Book

Other Shadow

Sunny Finds His Song

Tilly in a Tangle

Small Acts

CBCA Book of the Year Awards, Younger Readers, Notable Book

Fluff, Mess Up!

Fluff

The Big Book of Australian Nursery Rhymes

The bestselling Australian nursery rhyme collection in hardback for ages 2 and up

To Stir with Love

Now for the Good News

Why I Love Christmas

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Kimberley Kickers : Jy Goes for Gold

Kimberley Kickers

Land Recalls You